Chapter 5
Creating and Configuring Virtual Networks
Eventually, it all comes back to the network. Having servers running VMware ESXi with VMs stored on a highly redundant Fibre Channel SAN is great, but they are ultimately useless if the VMs cannot communicate across the network. What good is the ability to run 10 production systems on a single host at less cost if those production systems aren't available? Clearly, virtual networking within ESXi is a key area for every vSphere administrator to understand fully.
In this chapter, you will learn to
- Identify the components of virtual networking
- Create virtual switches (vSwitches) and distributed virtual switches (dvSwitches)
- Install and perform the basic configuration of the Cisco Nexus 1000V
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